Structure, dynamics, and rheology of colloid-polymer mixtures: From liquids to gels
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Structure, dynamics, and rheology of colloid-polymer mixtures: from liquids to gels.
We investigate the structural, dynamical, and viscoelastic properties of colloid-polymer mixtures at intermediate colloid volume fraction and varying polymer concentrations, thereby tuning the attractive interactions. Within the examined range of polymer concentrations, the samples varied from fluids to gels. In the liquid phase, an increasing correlation length of the density fluctuations when...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Chemical Physics
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0021-9606,1089-7690
DOI: 10.1063/1.3103889